The Boston Bruins are taking on the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena to begin their respective 2024-25 seasons. Here are the projected/expected lineups, sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
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BRUINS (0-0-0) at PANTHERS (0-0-0)
7 p.m. ET; ESPN, ESPN+, SN, TVAS
Bruins projected lineup
Pavel Zacha — Elias Lindholm — David Pastrnak
Brad Marchand — Charlie Coyle — Morgan Geekie
Max Jones — Trent Frederic — Justin Brazeau
Johnny Beecher — Mark Kastelic — Cole Koepke
Hampus Lindholm — Charlie McAvoy
Mason Lohrei — Brandon Carlo
Nikita Zadorov — Andrew Peeke
Joonas Korpisalo
Jeremy Swayman
Scratched: Riley Tufte, Parker Wotherspoon
Injured: Matthew Poitras (upper body), Ian Mitchell (undisclosed), Alec Regula (knee)
Status report:
- Bruins coach Jim Montgomery would not disclose a starting goalie, but Korpisalo was the first off with Swayman staying on the ice with the scratched and injured players; Swayman missed all of training camp before signing an eight-year contract Sunday.
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Panthers projected lineup
Carter Verhaeghe — Aleksander Barkov — Sam Reinhart
Evan Rodrigues — Sam Bennett — Matthew Tkachuk
Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Mackie Samoskevich
Jonah Gadjovich — Jesper Boqvist — A.J. Greer
Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Uvis Balinskis — Adam Boqvist
Sergei Bobrovsky
Chris Driedger
Scratched: Nate Schmidt, MacKenzie Entwistle
Injured: Tomas Nosek (upper body), Justin Sourdif (upper body)
Status report
- Nosek has been out since being injured during the second shift of the Panthers’ preseason opener, an 8-7 loss at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Sept. 25; general manager Bill Zito said the center was “week to week, but it won’t be next week.”
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